Biography
W. Makedes was an Unemployed Council leader in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, reported arrested in a June 20, 1934 dispatch about police attacks on relief and anti-eviction struggles. The report separately describes three unnamed Black workers beaten and jailed at a sheriff sale, followed by two further arrests naming W. Makedes and T. Johnson. No given-name expansion, individual outcome or exact arrest day is printed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n147-jun-20-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
